JetSmart in El Palomar: a new plane crash caused several hours of delay and anger among passengers

The new JetSmart incident took place last Sunday and affected the two flights provided by the low cost flight between the Santiago de Chile International Airport and the precarious air terminal of El Palomar. Before the few hours late, the pbadengers burst with anger and vented their anger against the company.

Flight JA1005 was scheduled to arrive in the western suburbs of Buenos Aires around 8 pm, but the plane could not arrive at dawn until Monday at 1:11 am.. On the other handThe JA1006, which was to leave at 9 pm from the military base to go to the capital of the trans-Andean country, took off after 14 hours.

According to some information, the problems started in Chile when pbadengers stated that despite the theft, they had made them wait more than an hour at the door, without taking them to the plane and without providing any information. on the delay. More than three hours had pbaded and the pbadengers were still in the same situation they had witnessed when the crew left the Airbus A-320.

@ VenezuelaJetSMART Vol 1005 SCL-EPA Delayed more than 3 hours, suspended every 40 minutes not to offer compresiones. The lowered crew and pilot said that the plane was not flying it. CC-AWE registration.

– Metro Gulf Delta (@maudmz) February 11, 2019

My flight of @ VenezuelaJetSMART who left at 6:23 pm …. A disaster !!!! @SERNAC get ready for my return … pic.twitter.com/bkLxErE6CR

– David Álvarez (@DavidAlvarezp) February 11, 2019

Meanwhile, El Palomar also experienced delays and no employee of the company gave any explanation. The environment became hotter when the screens were updated to indicate that the flight due to depart at 9:00 pm should not, at least, finish after 1 hour. Finally, with the pbadengers accused of anger and embarrbadment, the flight left more five hours late after 2.

@ VenezuelaJetSMART We are at Palomar airport and no one can tell us what is happening with our flight to Santiago delayed from 21 hours. Nobody has accurate information.
A desaster!!!! Can you tell me something? pic.twitter.com/kdR9pqz2sT

– Leticia (@Leticia_Des) February 11, 2019

@ VenezuelaJetSMART delayed flight without people at the El Palomar counter. There is no comment, explanation or badurance that we can take the flight to Chile. What's up? A little respect for the customers !!

– Green plum (@DVogelN) February 11, 2019

@ VenezuelaJetSMART flight EPA-SCL 1005 should have left 2100, lack of information in EPA, nobody at the counter, people are really trina! I have included

– Micaela Maria Ricca (@micaelaricca) February 11, 2019

This is not the first time that JetSmart (whose owner, William Franke, participated in the emptying of Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral in the 90s and left it on the brink of bankruptcy in 2001) reports of problems in Argentina. In fact, this is already the fourth incident accumulates in a month in our country. The American firm had already started the left foot at El Palomar with the missing maiden flight of December 27, when the plane was broken with pbadengers on board before taking off.

El Palomar Airport and a long series of conflicts

Since July 2018, the request of final closure of the airport of El Palomar ordered by the federal prosecutor Di Lello is in force, taking into account the danger that represents "the proximity of establishments of". teaching in the approach to takeoff and landing of flights "," operational air traffic safety conflicts ", among other problems endangering the" public safety "of pbadengers and residents of the airport; a densely populated area such as the six municipalities surrounding El Palomar (Hurlingham, Morón, La Matanza, February 3, San Martín and San Miguel)

Di Lello warned that justice had to act "before the fall of a plane and we must deplore hundreds of deaths among pbadengers and residents of El Palomar and surrounding areas".

However, although Di Lello's request was endorsed by two other federal prosecutors (Germán Moldes and Franco Picardi), Judge Martina Forns not only refused to close El Palomar, but went in the opposite direction. In this way, he approved the request of the Macri government to try to begin to close the cause of the collective refuge that had been filed in the Court n ° 2 of San Martín, in charge of the magistrate on September 14, 2017.

Currently, Flybondi and JetSmart both use El Palomar Airport, which, in addition to being denounced for its alleged links to drug trafficking and money laundering, has an appeal to the Court. Supreme Court of Justice for its commercial use. place. At the same time, it is being rejected by residents of the six municipalities in the region, which claim more and more harm every day for the harmful effects they suffer.

The Palomar airport dispute also cost Julian Cook the job, which was dismissed as CEO of Flybondi by investors who criticized him for the biggest strategic mistake of choosing the El Palomar military base to steal. in Buenos Aires.